Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins

Diocese of Moulins
Dioecesis Molinensis
Diocèse de Moulins

Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Clermont
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Clermont
Statistics
Area 7,381 km2 (2,850 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2013)
351,700
349,800 (99.5%)
Parishes 126
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established 27 July 1817
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Moulins, Allier
Patron saint Notre Dame
Secular priests 73 (diocesan)
11 (religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Laurent Percerou
Metropolitan Archbishop François Kalist
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The episcopal see is located in the city of Moulins. The diocese comprises all of the department of Allier in the region of Auvergne. The diocese was created in 1788, but the new bishop, although appointed by King Louis XVI, had not been approved (preconized) by Pope Pius VI before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. There was a Constitutional Bishop of Moulins, however, or rather Constitutional Bishop of Allier. Msgr. François-Xavier Laurent had been a curé in the diocese of Autun before becoming a member of the Estates General; after his election by the voters of Allier, he was consecrated in Paris on 6 March 1791 by Constitutional Bishop Gobel.[1] In 1793 he abdicated and married. Laurent died in 1796,[2] or 10 May 1821.[3]

The appointment and consecration of Laurent, as well as the erection of the Diocese of Allier, were annulled by Pope Pius VI.[4]

Under the Concordat of 11 June 1817 the diocese of Moulins was re-established, from parts of the dioceses of Autun, Bourges, and Clermont-Ferrand, to cover the department of Allier. The first bishop was appointed in 1822, and in the same year the medieval collegiate church at Moulins was established as Moulins Cathedral, the seat of the diocese.

The current bishop is Laurent Jean Lucien Marie Percerou, appointed in 2013.

List of bishops

References

  1. Paul Pisani (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802). (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils. pp. 96–97 and 456.
  2. Tableau des évêques constitutionnels de France, de 1791 a 1801 (in French). Paris: chez Méquignon-Havard. 1827. p. 33.
  3. Pisani, p. 97.
  4. Pius VI (1791). Lettres des évêques, députés à l'Assemblée nationale, en réponse au Bref du Pape, en date du 10 mars 1791 (in French). Aix-la-Chapelle: Guerbart. p. 53.

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